Mandel v. Hodges’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 113 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 20 Cal. 3d 25 - Serrano v. Priest (1977), 23 Cal. 3d 917 - Woodland Hills Residents Ass'n v. City Council of Los Angeles (1979)
8 federal appellate · 2 district · 89 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Alyeska Pipeline Service Company v. Wilderness Society · McGowan v. State of Maryland Gallagher · Cantwell v. State of Connecticut · Lemon v. Kurtzman · Yick Wo v. Hopkins
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 113 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“there is no evidence in the present case that the Christian holy day of Good Friday has become secularized in any degree during the course of its longtime observance by Christian sects.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“By its express terms, what [art. I, § 4] mandates is the perpetual guaranty of the `[f]ree exercise and enjoyment' of religion; what it prohibits is `discrimination' against, `or preference' in favor of, one religion as opposed to another.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he efforts of Petitioner's attorneys have resulted in a substantial benefit derived by Petitioner's class and the public at large and the saving to the State of approximately $2,000,000 in 1973 alone, and further saving which can reasonably be anticipated in years to come ...,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.